Phenomenology of Religion

Undergraduate

The mandate of modern historical research is to understand reality "as it actually happened." But is history our only mode of accessing the real? This course examines a modern intellectual tradition called the "phenomenology of religion" that sought a distinct approach to the relation of reality and history. Drawing together work in anthropology, theology, philosophy, and aesthetics, this course offers a philosophical introduction to religious studies as field of scholarly study as well as a ritual genealogy of the contemporary human sciences. Readings may include van der Leeuw, Eliade, Freud, Kant, Nietzsche, Dilthey, Dayan, af Klimt, Long, Otto, Butler, Husserl, Wynter. HU W 4pm-5:55pm